White Guy Joe Scarborough Wants AG Eric Holder To Stop Talking About Race

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On Monday’s episode of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough criticized Attorney General Eric Holder over Holder’s statements that race is a component that is driving some of the opposition to President Obama in Washington. Scarborough went out of his way to condemn Holder regarding the comments he made on Sunday during his interview on ABC’s This Week. Ironically, Scarborough injected the subject of race during a conversation on a somewhat separate topic, as the panel discussion was about Holder’s comments on former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.

Below is video of Scarborough’s comments, courtesy of MSNBC:

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As you can see, co-host Mika Brzezinski started the segment on Palin and Holder’s dismissal of her calls for impeachment during his ABC interview. However, when Mika threw it to Joe for his opinion, he decided to focus on another topic that Holder discussed during that interview. In Scarborough’s mind, Holder needs to realize that the amount of criticism that the President and Holder are receiving on Capitol Hill is just par for the course, and race has absolutely nothing to do with anything. He made it seem like Holder said all of the disparagement aimed at the President and AG in Washington is due to racism. Scarbrough also made a huge false equivalency by mentioning Democratic criticism during George W. Bush’s time in the White House, stating that Bush received as much criticism as President Obama, if not more.

Thankfully, The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson was on hand to refute Scarborough’s ignorance and misinformation. Robinson rightly pointed out that Holder was very measured in his response on race during the interview, saying it was a component but not the main driver. In fact, Holder’s quote from the interview is below:

“There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. … There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some, there’s a racial animus.”

Not exactly the way that Scarborough portrayed it, which is why Robinson made sure to push back on Scarborough’s description of events. Robinson made sure to accurately describe Holder’s comments as he more than likely watched the interview and read the transcript. On the other hand, Scarborough probably just saw a Breitbart article after Holder’s interview that said Holder was playing the race card and decided to run with it Monday morning.

The fact is, Holder and the President DO have to deal with a certain racist element within the Republican Party. That much is just a fact. Scarborough may not like to hear about it and wish that others wouldn’t talk about it. That is why he is constantly railing on Holder and Obama every single time they happen to mention any issues surrounding race. To him, anytime a black man brings up race, he is “playing the race card.”

There are few things more repulsive and unseemly than a white guy from the South telling a black man how to feel about race relations in this country. Of course, it isn’t like Scarborough is going to to stop doing this. That would take a certain amount of self-awareness that we all know he doesn’t possess. One need only to look at the smug and condescending way he reacted to Robinson after being refuted.

 


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